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Patented May 31, 1859.-

UNITED STATES PATENT onr'ron.

FREDERICK EBELING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINERY FOR CRUSHING AND MIXING SUGAR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,204, dated May 81, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK EBELING, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented and made certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery 'for Crushing and Mixing Sugars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein Figure l is a plan. Fig. 2 is a side elevation and Fig. 3 is a vertical section, showing my improved crushing and mixing apparatus.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

In the manufacture of sugar a revolving disk fitted with knives has been used to reduce the loaves to form the crushed sugar. In this instance theiweight of the loaf alone keeps it onto the knives, hence the reduction by such knives becomes less as the loaves are cut away.

My said invention consists in a peculiar construction and arrangement of devices by which the sugar is forced, by a uniform motion, onto, and against revolving knives, in such a manner that the crushing of the sugar is much more rapid, and uniform, and at the same time the loaves of sugar only require to be placed in a hopper, and are automatically taken therefrom, ground and mixed in the desired manner.

In the drawings A, is' the frame of the machine; B, is a drum receiving motion from competent power to rotate the main shaft a, and other parts. The shaft a, is in j ournal boxes 1, l, and fitted with pulleys 0r drums b, I), from which crossed bands pass to the pulleys 0, 0, on the shaft (Z, (Z. These shafts 0?, (Z, revolve in boxes 2, 2, and carry the cutting heads 6, e, which are formed with two circular heads carrying the ends of cutting knives e, and also intermediate mouth pieces 0 that prevent too deep a cut on the loaf of sugar. Thus each cutting head is an open cylinder out of which the sugar as it is crushed or cut 05 from the loaf is at liberty to be thrown by centrifugal force into a hopper u, hereafter referred to; f is a cover over said cutting heads.

The sugar loaves are placed in the hoppers g g and each one forced up successively to the cutting heads ,by the means next described. 2', is a shaft set in bearings 3, 3, and rotated with rather a slow motion by belts from the pulleys h, h, to the pulleys 7a, 70. Z, Z are pinions, revolving the wheels m, m, that are on cross shafts n, n, in bearings 4, 4C; a, n, are cranksand 0, 0, pitmen to the reciprocating plungers p, p, that press onto the bottom sugar loaf (in the part g, of the hopper) and force the same against the cutter heads (6,) by which jection 5, on the plunger p, turns the sup-' port 1", up to latch the same, as it goes forward from the position seen in Fig. 4, when the latch s, holding the support 1*, in position as seen in Fig. 5, sustains the sugar loaves in the hopper, but when the projection 5, lifts the latch 8, (against the spring t,) the parts 6 and 7 separate and another loaf is dropped into trough 9 ready to be pushed up as seen in Fig. 4:.

The crushed or cut sugar passes into the hoppers u and o, in the latter of which are revolving mixers y and 2 set and revolved rapidly on shafts w and m. These mixers are formed of heads with slats a between them as seen in Fig. 7, so as to mix and commingle the sugar thoroughly as it passes through the same. I have shown in the drawing four hoppers (g), if the same kinds of loaf sugar is supplied to each, but one product is the result; if however two or more different quantities are supplied to said hoppers the product will be a sugar of that color which results from mixing thoroughly the different kinds. If the machine is required to crush-two different qualities simultaneously, a vertical division in the hoppers (u, 4),) will keep the sugars separate, and they can be delivered by different spouts.

In Sheet 2 of the drawing I have shown the same parts, as in Sheet 1, and they act for the same purpose, but I have shown a device for saving time in returning the plunprovided with an inclined end, 15, and althe incline-I5, in combination with the pins :10, on the wheel m, and the weight 0 or its equivalent for drawing back the plungers 12 71 i the manner and for the purposes specified.

gers p, for in Sheet 1 it will be seen that the plungers moving back only as slowly as the parts moving at the'same" speed in other respects.

The pitmen 0, 0, instead of being connect ed to the cranks n, have their crank pins set in sliding barso. Each of these bars is lowedto slide lengthwise across the shaft It, by the" holethrough which said shaft passes being elongated.

10 10 are pins in the wheel m, acting against a projecting part 11 to rotate the said bars 0 and move the plungersp. I-Iow ever when the inclined end 15, takes the shaft 2', an endwise motion is given said bar 0, that slidesll, off of the pin 10 when the J signature thistwenty ninth day of April weight 0 draws back the plungers by acting through'the cord and stops 12 and 13, to the former of which the end of the cord is at- 3 tached, and when drawn back the'next' pin 10, immediately commences to press the 2 parts forward again.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

, lwThe reciprocating plunger 29, acting on the sugar loaf in combination with the revolving cutter head 6, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as specified.

2. I claim thesupport a", and latch s, actuated as set forth, and acting to drop one loaf of sugar at a time-from the hopper, so as to be pressed forward by the plunger 10,

I as set forth.

3. I claim the slidingubar 0', fitted with 4'. I claim the revolving mixers y,,y, constructed with'slats 2, a, between the heads in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my r. EBELING. 

